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Title Action dharma : new studies in engaged Buddhism / edited by Christopher Queen, Charles Prebish and Damien Keown
Published London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 365 pages)
Series RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism
RoutledgeCurzon critical studies in Buddhism
Contents Do bodhisattvas relieve poverty? / Stephen Jenkins -- Dōgen's ceasless practice / Daniel Zelinski -- Nichiren's activist heirs Sōka Gakkai, Risshō Kosekai, Nipponzan Myōhōji / Jacqueline I. Stone -- Buddhism and development the ecology monks of Thailand / Susan M. Darlington -- Maha Ghosananda as a contemplative social activist / Matthew Weiner -- Sarvodaya Shramadana's quest for peace / George D. Bond -- Buddhist Tsu-Chi foundation of Taiwan / C. Julia Huang -- Social engagement in South Korean Buddhism / Frank Tedesco -- Buddhism and the burukamin oppression or liberation? / Leslie A. Alldritt -- Engaged and meditating Vipassana Hawaii's Burmese connection / Harriet Kirkley -- Widening the circles communities of color and Western Buddhist convert sanghas / Sharon Smith -- Sumbol [i.e. Symbol] and narration in Buddhist prison ministry / Virginia Cohn Parkum and J. Anthony Stultz -- Engaged Buddhist ethics mistaking the boat for the shore / James E. Deitrick -- Does Buddhism need human rights? / Derek S. Jeffreys -- Engaged Buddhism new and inproved? / Thomas Freeman Yarnall
Summary Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Fourteen new essays treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest turning of the Dharma. Environmentalism and peace walks through the minefields of Southeast Asia, the future of the 'untouchables' of Japan, and outreach to minorities and inmates of the criminal justice system in the West are some of the challenging topics considered
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Buddhism -- Social aspects.
Buddhism -- Doctrines.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
Buddhism -- Doctrines
Buddhism -- Social aspects
Boeddhisme.
Activisme.
Sociale acties.
Buddhism -- sociala aspekter.
Buddhism -- lärosatser.
Form Electronic book
Author Queen, Christopher S., 1945-
Prebish, Charles S
Keown, Damien, 1951-
ISBN 9781136803826
1136803823
9780203827789
0203827783
0429239378
9780429239373
1283963760
9781283963763